The author of the Times piece acknowledges that any rewrite would have to go through same process as a new amendment, or for that matter, a repeal. He also pretty much admits that it ain't gonna happen: "Of course, even an uncontroversial constitutional amendment requires a minor miracle."

The editors at the Times seem to be willing to publish almost any op-ed piece supporting gun control, no matter how pointless or loony it seems. The one that sticks in my mind is this one: Please Take Away My Right to a Gun.

__________________"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."
(Milan Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1980)